Perhaps we get the weekend started a day early?

And for good measure, parts II and III.

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Cinnamon Toast Crunch Rap is an oldie, but a goodie.

Well, maybe just an oldie.

[stuffistole]

Piggy may have some stealth moves, but her accomplice is less than impressed.

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Know This:

• Scientists have finally figured out why stout bubbles — like those in Guinness — fall.
• The DNC is mocking Mitt Romney with a fake Facebook timeline of his most embarrassing moments.
• More women are writing op-eds than ever before — but their subject choices leave room for improvement.

Read This:

• The latest on Google X’s Project Glass.
• Richard Branson hates on the suit and tie in a well-reasoned op-ed for Entrepreneur.
• When a country clubber gets pissy, no one is safe.

Watch This:

• Meet the gay couple of 48 years who are suing the state of Illinois for the right to marry.
• If this doesn’t get you psyched for the Stanley Cup Finals, nothing will.
• A Massachusetts boy gives a free trip to Disney World to the family of a fallen soldier.

Look At This:

• Photographer Nick Stern channels Banksy in real life.
• Neil Gaiman’s killer grad speech has been turned into a comic.
• Forty of the most powerful photos ever taken, all in one spot.
• The best-selling duets of all time, in a single handy infographic.

Other:

• Tea Time Tumblr: Amercia Is With Mitt!
• Tea Time Twitter: @jillbidenveep
• Tea Time List: The 14 Funniest Tweets Politicians Shared, Then Deleted
• Above: bitsandpieces

Craving a midweek pick-me-up? Perhaps in the form of a mini-hipster rendition of Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend”?

Twelve- and 8-year-old sisters Lennon and Maisy — and their butter containers — have you covered. You’re welcome.

[death+taxes]

Legacy of Cool is denim pr0n a work-in-progress documentary about jeans around the world — their culture, their history, their production, and of course, the hipsters that worship them. No word on an ETA, but the finished film should be… cool.

[aggregate]

These Zombie Gnomes may be a bit tasteless following a weekend in which one man actually ate off another man’s face… but no one ever said a zombie apocalypse was avoidable.

[laughingsquid]

On the heels of recent Humane Society undercover investigations into chicken cruelty, pig cruelty, and Tennessee walking horse cruelty, a Mercy For Animals hidden-camera operation at a livestock auction in L.A. has revealed “an ongoing pattern of cruelty, egregious violence, and severe neglect,” including:

• “Downed” animals — those too sick or injured to even stand or walk on their own — being left to slowly suffer and die without food, water or veterinary care.
• Sick, injured and dying animals being kicked, pushed and dragged into transport trucks to be sold and slaughtered for human consumption.
• Workers throwing, beating, stomping on and kicking animals in the face and body.
• Baby goats being carelessly picked up by their necks and then kicked or tossed around.
• Workers grabbing, dragging and throwing animals by their heads, necks, ears, horns, tails, and legs.
• Birds stuffed into bags and goats, sheep and other animals overcrowded into small pens, forcing animals to stand on and even trample each other.

After reviewing the footage, Temple Grandin, Ph.D., an animal welfare advisor to the USDA, wrote: “The handling was very rough and kicking animals is not acceptable. If this auction had been a federally inspected meat packing plant, they would have suspended inspection and shut them down.”

MFA’s exposé has prompted a further investigation by law enforcement, and seven employees and the auction’s owner have been charged with a total of 21 counts of animal cruelty. The case is ongoing.

(Heads up — footage is graphic.)

[thanks, kat!]

Today on The Daily What Geek: Court approves Julian Assange’s extradition to Sweden

Elsewhere on the Internets:

• Out: The music video for the new Jay-Z and/or Kanye West release “No Church In The Wild”
• Double Life: The LA Coliseum hosted a pr0n shoot in 2001
• Exploded: Illinois State Rep. Mike Bost, over pension reform
• Planned: Dueling Silence of the Lambs prequels
• Available: A Fifty Shades of Grey hotel package, in San Francisco

Lunchtime List: 11 Great ’00s Bands We’d Love To See Reunite

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Comedian Todd Glass, who came out as gay in January, appears in a new PSA for the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network. The spot — which questions whether there’s a difference between gay suicide, and negligence from loved ones who push “archaic beliefs and misinformation” about homosexuality — is an entry for a contest for GLSEN. (You can vote here.)

[thanks, ellen!]